On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 04:13:56PM +0100, Germano Massullo wrote: > Jerry James wrote: > > RPM can query ELF objects (executables and shared libraries) to find > > DT_NEEDED fields. That gives it a list of libraries that are depended > > on directly. It generates Requires for those dependencies > > automatically; see /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires. So the keepassxc > > package does contain Requires, they just don't appear explicitly in > > the spec file (and shouldn't). > > So this explains the difference with Python packages that instead many > times need Requires.
They used to, but not anymore. Modern Python packaging autogenerates Provides/Requires based on the native Python metadata, at least in the simple cases. > Vitaly Zaitsev wrote: > > On 30.12.2020 23:01, Jerry James wrote: > >> RPM can query ELF objects (executables and shared libraries) to find > >> DT_NEEDED fields. That gives it a list of libraries that are depended > >> on directly. > > > > Except for Qt5Svg, because it is a Qt runtime plugin. > > Actually Qt5Svg does not need Requires > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911210#c1 Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
